Wondering if 1 or 2 are achievable when spending 100% of your time programming.
3. Be John Carmack
He attends conferences and gives talks.
Do you know anyone important who spent 100% of their time programming? That rules out books, talks, blog posts, entrepreneurship, etc. That's your answer.
What are you refering to? HN guidelines?
I was just trying to be funny as well as point out the obvious reason why Apple won't care about him :)
I think s/he is saying - Rule 1: be wealthy, Rule 2: be an important app developer
Of course that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for clearing that up for me.
I think it's a play on a fairly common meme from Reddit. Early example here: